Why don't I have an option to send private messages anymore?

For the past week I don’t see the button under users’ profile to send a private message. I tried to ask this question in private to the moderators but I didn’t see that button under their profiles either. Thank you.

You need to have at least 15 posts in order to utilize that feature.

Thank you so much for the answer.

Here are a couple of threads on the topic:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/2064380-updates-to-the-membership-levels.html#latest
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/2064222-how-to-pm-someone-p1.html

I should have searched for this before as I spent too much time wondering where that feature I used to have went! I can appreciate why CC did this, however…

You can still respond to a user’s PMs

Thank you @skieurope !